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Some inmates at Young County Jail will soon have access to wall-mounted phones in their cells after county commissioners voted at their Aug. 1 meeting to allow the jail commissary supplier to install and operate the devices at nocost to the county. The commissioners approved a 60-month contract for Sterling Commissar y/ Crown Correctional Telephoneof Clifton, Texas. Sheriff Travis Babcock asked for approval for the phones, which require inmates to hold their ears up to the wall-mounted receivers, because of problems with inmates using wireless phones as weapons against other inmates anddeputies. The new phones will be installed by Sterling- Crown in the 12 separation cells, where inmates are housed individually, Sheriff Babcock said. Those inmates now share a single cordless telephone that is rolled to their cells on a cart.

People with outstanding warrants for Class C misdemeanors can wipe their slates clean starting Aug. 17 by appearing at municipal court to take care of their court fees and fines, or sign up for community service, Interim City Administrator Arpegea Pagsuberon said.

Olney’s Russia connection began with a friendship between Richard Lunsford, a member of the Abilene Christian University board of directors, and Igor Troyanovsky, director of the Moscow Bible Center and chairman of the Department of Religion for the Russian news agency, TASS. Mr. Troyanovsky was involved with helping Russian students enroll at ACU. Their friendship continued, with thoughts of pursuing a deeper relationship with Russia after the fall of the Iron Curtain.